> Women have just experienced the most significant blow against their rights and personal freedoms in 50 years, combined with the intense pressure they're under to try to bring persistent sexual abuse into the light.
The rise of near-total abortion bans in some states is regrettable ("near-total", since every state still has exceptions for threats to the mother's physical health), though I believe that there will be a lot of reversion to the mean over the next few years. No state has a majority of the population that supports a total or near-total ban.
The GP may be surprised to learn, however, that on the subject of elective abortions, presumed socially liberal European countries like Denmark (12 weeks) or France (14 weeks) are closer to socially conservative states like Georgia (6 weeks) or South Carolina (20 weeks) than socially liberal states like Massachusetts (24 weeks) or Oregon (no limit). And of course, globally, fewer than half of all countries allow elective abortions at all.
> Young adults are looking down the barrel of decreased job opportunity combined with crippling debt and rising cost of living.
The median real (as in adjusted for inflation) income has been on an upward trend over the past few decades, with a local peak in 2019[0].
Crippling debt? The average undergrad leaves school with $33k in student loan debt[1], which is substantially less than the average new car purchase at $48k as of March 2023, and nobody calls the latter crippling. Do young people really have a greater debt burden? People 18-26 have the least debt out of all generational groups. Gen-Xers aged 43-58, hardly young, carry the most debt.[2] This all makes sense, since people accumulate more debt as they enter the middle of their lives buying homes and whatnot, and lose debt as they pay it off over time.
> Black people have been trying to convince people not to disproportionately kill and oppress them, and are still experiencing significant pushback.
Well, there's a lot to unpack here. Let me see if I can tackle GP's point in a few ways.
First, "disproportionately" is basically a meaningless concept; literally everything is disproportionate, and one of the strangest facets of the modern social justice movement is the idea that every slice of life should reflect the overall composition of society. Over half of all NFL players are black; 0.1% are Asian[3]. Black people are "disproportionately" overemployed in barbershops and "disproportionately" underemployed in nail salons[4]; 85% of cab drivers and 90% of lumberjacks are men. Yet nobody's out there mustering public support for fewer black NFL players or more women cab drivers.
This isn't limited to this country; anywhere in the world you care to look, whatever subset of the population you choose, you're bound to find disproportionate numbers, because different cultural subgroups have different preferences.
Next, on the subject of black people "trying to convince people [...] not to kill and oppress them", I assume by that wording the GP meant police shootings and hate crimes committed by other races. The most comprehensive study on racial bias in police shootings to date was unable to find racial bias in fatal police shootings[6]. And the overwhelming majority of black homicide victims were killed by a black perpetrator[7]. Black people were "disproportionately" more likely to be a victim of race-motivated hate crimes[8] but also "disproportionately" more likely to be a perpetrator of hate crimes[9].
As for oppression, it's difficult to make the claim of systemic oppression of black people here and now in the present, when they are "disproportionately" more represented in the Supreme Court and about "proportionately" represented in the House of Representatives. Were black people systemically oppressed in the past? Absolutely, and even within living memory. Does that carry an effect to this day? Sure. Are there actual racists today? Yes, but likely not as many as GP thinks. Is the best way forward to apply present discrimination to address past discrimination, as is the current identitarian dogma? I certainly don't believe so, and I suppose that's what GP means by "pushback".
[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N.
[1]: https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-debt
[2]: https://www.creditkarma.com/insights/i/average-debt-by-age#a...
[3]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1167935/racial-diversity...
[4]: https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat18.htm
[5]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...
[6]: https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-ana...
[7]: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...